Transcript of "New Horizons V2 I40"

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New Horizons
The Ofﬁcial Bulletin of the Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay Inc.
PO Box 168, Nedlands, Western Australia, 6909 ! District 9450! ABN: 99 602 195 617
Volume 2, Issue 40 5th - 11th April 2010
Letter from the Club Manna Industries Outbound and Inbound Guest Speakers Time is Right to End Rotary Foundation
President Launch GSE Meetings Glen Kinross & Ralph Polio Now Thought of the Week
Find out what is Details of this Both GSE teams to Martins to speak at the New tools to ﬁght This week’s thought is
happening around the important project visit RC Freshwater club. Polio. about doors for those in
club. launch. Bay. Page 2 Page 2 need.
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many years which gave him generosity in providing three Principal Joe Dellaposta
Letter From the the opportunity to become scholarships to your College emailed to thank the club for
involved with teaching for young people from D. the magnifying microscopes,
Club President English to adults. The result 1640 in Normandy. saying how valuable they
being the very successful will be to the addition of their
Dear Fellow Rotarians, Milner International College April is Magazine month. I science resources.
of English, a career Warren have sent an article to Rotary
Ken joins me in wishing each loves and one that has been Down Under on the The Rotary year is rapidly
of you a very Happy and safe good for him and to him and Magnifying Microscope drawing to a close however
Easter weekend. Rosemary. project, however, do not there is still much to be done
expect it to be published in and April is going to be a full
The last meeting for March Warren was a member of the the April edition as the month. Please support our
brought us the Life and very ﬁrst GSE Team out of deadline for the magazine is Outbound GSE Team to
Times of our member Warren WA in 1967. He told us how usually quite some time prior Normandy by coming along
Milner. We all ﬁnd hearing ‘chance’ had played a huge to the edition being to hear their presentation at
more about our members part in his life. Many of us published. Rajah has sent an our meeting next Thursday.
very interesting and Warren might term it ‘divine article on the book project he Yours in Rotary Service,
was no exception. Born and providence’. All bringing and Jes brought back from
brought up in the local about a happy and India to the Post and Western Di Collins
vicinity, he happened upon productive life to the Milners Suburbs Weekly and we hope Charter President
his career, a posting to Collie and their three children. one of these Community
where he met his lovely wife newspapers will publish the
Rosemary, lived abroad for Thank you Warren for your article and that it will result Manna
address and for your in contributions of suitable
books. Industries
Magazine Month is really all Launch
about ‘PR’ so any publicity
on Rotary, its projects and This is ﬁnally set for
programs that can be Wednesday, 21st April at
promoted to the general 2.30pm at Maddington
public is what the exercise is Primary School, Albany Hwy,
all about. The vast majority Maddington.
have no idea what Rotary is
or does, that is why PR is so Interested members are
important. welcome to attend the
Ofﬁcial Opening. A club
Ken and I, along with Alan visit will be arranged on one
Rourke from Watercorp of our meeting nights so that
presented 30 magnifying all members are able to view
microscopes and a couple of the project in depth.
Teacher’s Manuals to the
Claremont Primary School Another excellent project
last Tuesday (30th March) brought to fruition with the
morning at their Assembly. aid of a Rotary Foundation
Photo: Warren Milner (Centre)
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N E W H O R I Z O N S
Matching Grant. A ﬁnal the club and for the use of sure every Rotary club
report has already been sent Lotterywest for our Saturday knows about this, because
to the Rotary Foundation, Director workshop and Club we will not get the job done
accounting for all funds Assemblies. We hope you without Rotary leading the
sought and expended on the Required will remain a ‘Friend’ of the charge.”
project. RC of FB and return as an
There is still a vacancy on the active member when work The new strategic plan for
Board for Community no longer consumes all of the Global Polio Eradication
Outbound GSE Service Director. your time. Initiative involves mobilizing
We need a volunteer please. massive resources to reach
Presentation more children in the areas
where the virus remains
Kylie West, a member of the PRIP Glen endemic. For instance, a
Outbound Group Study survey in the two endemic
Exchange Team to Kinross 12th states of India, Bihar and
Normandy, nominated by the Uttar Pradesh, identiﬁed
RCFB, along with the Team May thousands of homes and
Leader Jim Benson and other children who had not been
Team members, Luke reached by health workers.
A reminder that our meeting
Hutchinson, Jocelyn Sloan The two states have been a
on Wednesday 12th May will
and Devi Avani will be the challenge because of high
be a dinner in the Cafe at
speakers at our meeting on population densities in areas
Bethesda Hospital. Time:
Wednesday afternoon. In of extreme poverty, where
6.30pm for 7.00. Cost is $30
preparing for their departure poor sanitation can
per person and BYO wine.
to D. 1640, they are visiting contribute to the spread of
clubs, speciﬁcally those who the virus.
The Rotary Clubs of
have nominated a Team Cambridge, Hillarys and
member, to practice the Support from Leaders
Mosman Park (all smallish
presentation they plan to clubs) will join with us for
make to the clubs in Another key element of the
this meeting and remember
Normandy. They will rely on to please bring your partners. Time is Right new strategy focuses on
eliciting the support of
feedback from clubs such as
ours to ﬁne tune their to End Polio political and traditional
presentation. Please come Rtn. Prof. By Arnold R. Grahl
leaders, a move that is seen
as critical to eradicating the
along and support them.
Rotary International News
Ralph Martins 30 March 2010
disease in the remaining four
endemic countries:
Inbound GSE We have a line up of New tools, new tactics, and
Afghanistan, India, Nigeria,
and Pakistan. Aylward said
Presentation excellent speakers in the
coming month. On
increased support
political leaders have put
from Rotary has led the charge to
gain the leaders’ backing.
Wednesday, 5th May Rotary and its partners in the International PolioPlus
The RCFB will be hosting a Australian of the Year for Global Polio Eradication
group meeting for the Committee Chair Robert S.
WA, Prof. Ralph Martins will Initiative in the best position Scott visited the president of
Inbound Group Study be addressing us on his work ever to ﬁnish the job of
Exchange Team from Pakistan in October to
on Alzheimer’s. Ralph, as ridding the world of polio. present him with a Polio
Normandy on 28th April. most will know, is a world
The Rotary Clubs of Eradication Champion
leading researcher and Dr. Bruce Aylward, director Award, recognizing his
Cambridge, Dalkeith and authority on Alzheimer’s of the initiative at the World
Matilda Bay have been contributions toward a polio-
and gives a very positive Health Organization, said free world. Bill Gates visited
invited to join us for the message on this subject. 2009 was a watershed year in
meeting. Unfortunately, the India in November and met
Please bring along partners the ﬁght against polio. For with Rotary leaders there to
program for the Inbound and friends to hear and the ﬁrst time, eradication
Team is very behind in being line up the support of the
support Ralph. workers discovered a chink state governors.
organised and due to this, in the armor of the disease
the RC of Cambridge have “that has been tormenting
advised that their program Resignation mankind for thousands of
Rotarians have had a hand in
securing letters from Taliban
for April is already set and years,” he said.
they will not be joining us. and N ATO f o rc e s
Jan Stewart has advised that encouraging full cooperation
We have not heard back from with her current work “Our tactics are better, the
Dalkeith or Matilda Bay, with immunization efforts in
commitments she does not tools are better, and our Afghanistan. United Nations
however, Dalkeith withdrew see the situation improving support is stronger than
their offer t host the Inbound Secretary-General Ban Ki-
re her ability to participate in ever,” Aylward told regional moon told attendees at the
Team due to the late advice Rotary so has decided to Rotary Foundation
hence their support for a 2009 RI Convention in
resign. coordinators (RRFCs) 18 Birmingham, England, that
group meeting may not be March during a training
forthcoming and as Matilda he'd work for Days of
We are disappointed about event in Chicago. “You will Tranquility in conﬂict areas
Bay is a breakfast meeting, this decision Jan, thank you be the Rotarians at the front
they too may not be inclined to remove impediments to
for your contribution, in pushing forward this new immunizations.
to change their meeting. especially in the early days of strategy. I need you to make
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To address the immediate $115.6 million toward the
ﬁnancial needs of mass challenge, and stressed that
vaccination campaigns, The the fundraising effort is as
Rotary Foundation expedited important as ever. “The polio
US$30 million in funding for a eradication campaign is the
synchronized immunization largest public health campaign
drive 6-8 March, supported by the world has ever seen. We
leaders in 19 countries across can do it, we must do it,
Central and West Africa. Nine because we have promised the
of the countries have had cases children of the world that we
of polio within the last six would do it.”
months; the disease spread
from Nigeria, where the virus Germ said Foundation alumni
has dug in its heels. A second and 11 Rotary fellowships
drive is planned for 24 April, have responded to the
and the countries with active invitation to participate in the
outbreaks of polio will receive challenge, with alumni
a third sweep. contributing $260,000. Interact
clubs have raised $70,000, and
The new tool Aylward praised Rotaract clubs $41,000.
is the bivalent oral polio
vaccine, ﬁrst used in Penny LeGate, an independent
Afghanistan in December and producer and freelance
since employed during journalist who spoke at the
immunization days in Nigeria 2010 International Assembly in
and Pakistan. The bivalent January, shared personal
vaccine has an advantage over stories from her participation
monovalent vaccines because in immunization drives in
it is effective against both Ethiopia and India.
remaining types of wild
poliovirus, types 1 and 3 -- “I just can’t explain the feeling
type 2 has already been I have when I hold that baby
eradicated -- and was proved in my arms and I know that
in clinical trials last year to be child will not get polio,”
almost as effective as the LeGate said. She also shared
monovalent vaccine. the heartbreak of ﬁnding a girl,
Minakshi, in India who had
The combination of new tactics contracted polio. Volunteers
and tools has been amazingly had to explain to the girl’s
effective, Aylward said. In mother that they did not have
2009, Nigeria had 388 cases of any medicine that could cure
polio in 24 states. So far this her.
year, there has been only one
case in one state. In India, type LeGate encouraged the RRFCs
1 has been reduced to just one to consider taking part in an
genetic lineage. immunization drive, adding
that she hoped the drives
US$200 Million Challenge would not be needed much
longer as progress toward
John F. Germ, vice chair of The polio eradication continued.
Rotary Foundation Trustees “You will see ﬁrsthand why
and chair of the Rotary's US eradication is the very heart
$200 Million Challenge and soul of Rotary.”
Committee, told the RRFCs
that Rotarians have raised Photos: (top & bottom) Magnifying Microscopes at Claremont Primary School
Club Social RC Freshwater Bay
Social function for members, partners and
potential members.
Changeover Dinner
When: Saturday, 10th April, 2010.
The ﬁrst Changeover Dinner of the Rotary Club
Venue: Collins’ Residence, 1 New Court Green,
of Freshwater Bay.
Mt Claremont, 6010.
When: Thursday, 1st July, 2010.
Time: 6:30pm
Venue: Nedlands Golf Club, Melvista Ave,
Nedlands 6009.
All members to bring a dish (to be coordinated)
Time: 6:30pm for 7:00pm.
and drinks. Please put the date in your diary and
Cost: TBA
RSVP to Di.
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